Sociologists and economists have different disciplinary tendencies when analyzing the labor supply of welfare recipients. Sociologists often argue that recipients have no choice about working: they are unemployed because they can find neither jobs nor child care services. Economists assume...

Comparison of two cohorts of African-American and white women, in 1972 and 1987 respectively, reveals poverty has dropped sharply across cohorts for both races. For both groups, the explanation is tied primarily to increased labor force attachment and, among African-American unmarried women,...

Mesa Verde National Park, in Southwestern Colorado, preserves and interprets an archaeological region of much importance and beauty. Its famous cliff dwellings are ancestral homes to many contemporary Pueblo Indians, and the park is a significant positive factor for many contemporary American...

This research uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to describe and model developmental trajectories across middle childhood. Our sample consists of approximately 1,000 children of NLSY women who were age 6-7 in either 1986 or 1988. Assessments of PIAT math and reading...

The impact on success of motivation, risk aversion, social capital, and a host of other "noncognitive" characteristics is assessed using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Our intragenerational analysis uses a sample of men first observed in their 20s, and relates these traits...

The basic idea of program evaluation is both simple and appealing. Program outcomes are measured and compared to some minimum performance standard or threshold. In practice, however, evaluation is quite difficult. Two fundamental problems of outcome measurement must be addressed. The first,...

In many industries, such as higher education, hospitals, and museums, nonprofit organizations control great wealth. Public and private donations, tax subsidies, and volunteered services have typically made that wealth accumulation possible. In return for the various forms of assistance,...

The purpose of this study is to identify, describe, and explain extended family caregiving networks that African-American families use to provide care to elderly family members. The extended network was conceptualized to include four dimensions: different kinds of kin and non-kin, different...

This paper adapts the heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model of labor earnings developed by Heckman, Lochner, and Taber (1998a) to estimate the effect of tax reform on human capital accumulation. The model allows for both schooling and on-the-job training. I estimate it on micro...

In 1993, citizens in conservative Williamson County, Texas, debated whether to grant tax breaks to attract Apple Computer Company, even though Apple maintained an unpopular policy of extending health care benefits to the unmarried domestic partners of employees. We visited Williamson County to...